International Business Management
ISSN: OnlineISSN: Print 1993-5250
Abstract
Knowledge is a prime key source of sustainable competitive advantage for many organization as it is considered one of the most powerful affect the output of the organization. By supporting and empowering the knowledge works; knowledge flows smoothly to beat resistance to change, reflects in all business processes to achieve the goals, improves business performance, increase success rates and expands outputs quality. This research aims to exploit working knowledge when it’s shared throughout the organization by examining the organizational knowledge capabilities illustrated by the core individual level factors (reputation, sociability, willingness and intention, employee adaptability and qualifications) managerial level roles (mentoring, facilitating, innovating, fostering, motivating, focusing, developing and dealing) and collaborative knowledge capabilities in the organization (culture, climate, structure, trust and collaboration incentives) levels to fulfill organizational objectives. This study contributes to the Knowledge Management (KM) literature by proposing a comprehensive measure of a structured model which contains three levels which influence knowledge organization application. The research tested and executed a deep data analysis of the proposed model using Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. Research data was collected by distributing a questionnaire in several Arab companies in Middle East. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 21 and MVSOT application “EQS 6.3” to test the research hypotheses. The results showed a high level of influence of decision-makers’ consideration of the knowledge capabilities on all organizational levels by giving more understanding of the factors’ touching the success of the knowledge management strategy.
How to cite this article:
Firas M. Alkhaldi and Samir M. Hammami. Individual, Managerial and Collaborative Capabilities of Organizational Knowledge.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/ibm.2017.156.164
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1993-5250/ibm.2017.156.164